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Volume containing an account of experiments conducted at the Eastern Telegraph Co.'s research laboratory in 1911 on Dipper Currents and Resistance.

Typescript draft of an unpublished textbook on physics by Sir Oliver Lodge divided into five sections, viz. heat mechanics, sound, light and electricity and magnetism].

Two files of correspondence, reports, pamphlets, etc., about the Fellowship Reconciliation Committee. Most of the papers relate to the F.R.C.'s concern for the welfare of conscientious objectors and their dependants, 1915-21, to its attempts to alleviate the plight of children in famine-stricken Central Europe, especially in Austria and Hungary, 1920-2, by giving them temporary homes in Britain, and to Anna Makara a Hungarian girl who lived with the Davies family for a while.

Two files of correspondence, including copy replies, between Ben Davies and Messrs Muirhead & Co. concerning the latter manufacturing the former's inventions or designs.

Two files containing details of experiments on Artificial Cables and Duplex Signalling, 1923-1927. Xerox copies of extracts from the records of the Eastern Telegraph Co. relating to Ben Davies's patents, salary, expenses, employment record and retirement, 1902-1929. (E.T.C. Minute Book', no. 17, Indexes to E.T.C. Minute Books, nos. 11, 12, 17, Common Seal Book, no. 13, and Eng./Staff File). The call number of the copies is NLW Facsimile 388.

Two files and a volume of press cuttings contributed by Ben Davies to the Cambrian News about international politics especially Russia; current political affairs, and religion.

Three files of the general correspondence of Ben Davies comprising approximately 1,500 letters including 20 letters from Evan Pan Jones, 1896-1901 (a libel suit brought against him by Gwyneddon, the National Land League, the financial demise of Cwrs y Byd, etc.), 16 letters from Samuel J. Evans, 1927-8, 1937-8; 5 letters from 'Eifionydd' [John Thomas, editor of Y Genhinen] 1895, 1897-8; 4 letters from D. R. Grenfell, MP, 1932-3, 1938, and 2 letters from George M. Ll. Davies, 1938 (views on Russia). The main themes of the general correspondence, however, are personal affairs, science and scientific experiments, spiritualism, the 1904 Revival and other religious matters, national and international politics, especially Russia and the Second World War. The correspondence also includes a reference to the presence of Llwyd ap Iwan in Cardiff and a proposal to publish an account of his travels in Patagonia and the Andes, 1901. Box 2/1 1891-1919, Box 2/2 1920-38, Box 2/3 1939-51.

Three files of family correspondence comprising approximately 1,350 letters, including copy replies; written mainly by Ben Davies and his wife. Almost all the correspondence is concerned with personal and domestic matters; but there are numerous references to Christian Science and to spiritualism and four references to experimenting with Marconi's telegraph invention at Lavernock near Cardiff, 1897. There are also letters from Gwen Davies to her parents from Hungary, 1922, Italy, 1925, and Switzerland, 1929 and letters written by a relative working in China, 1913. Box 1/1 1882-1907, Box 1/2 1908-25, Box 3 1926-50.

Six files of approximately 900 letters from Sir Oliver Lodge or his secretary to Ben Davies with a number of copy replies concerning Sir Oliver's famous ether experiments, and experiments on electro-magnetic waves, photo-electricity, magnetic telegraph, etc. [cf. Sir Oliver Lodge, Past Years : An Autobiography (1931), Chaps. xiv-xvii]. Other subjects discussed include seances, spiritualism, publications and Russia. These letters have been arranged in chronological order, numbered, guarded and filed at NLW:. Box 3/1 1885-94, Box 3/2 1896-1900, Box 3/3 1901-4, Box 3/4 1905-8, Box 3/5 1909-24, Box 3/6 1925-41. Xerox copies of 10 letters from Ben Davies to Sir Oliver Lodge reporting the result of experiments with the ether machine, 1893-1896, and upon the discharge of electricity from various metals, [1894 x 1897]. The originals are held at the Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. (Lodge Papers, MS 3. 16 (6-8), MS 3. 17 (1- 6), MS 3. 19 (3)) The call number of the copies is NLW Facsimile 387.

Scrapbook of press cuttings entitled 'Sociology: The Struggle for a Better World and the opposition to it', containing a good deal of material on Russia.